NEW HEBRIDES.
DUAL CONTROL DECIDED ON,
FRENCH JUBILATION.
By telegraph, Press Ass'n, Copyright, Paris, Maroh 2. M, 86, Germain has informed Le Figaro that tho New Hebrides Commission achieved unhoped for suooess. It has drafted au administrative organisation which ezeoutos tho mixed tribunal's decisions. Renter has been informed that all the questions in dispute have bson settled.. i The agreement on the Now Hebrides question is subject to the approval of tho British and French Governments. Bsoeived 4.47 p.m., Maroh 4. I LondoD, Maroh 3. The New Hebrides agreement oomprises fifty articles. Britain and France retain power oyer their own people. The administrative rights of both are unchanged ; none are j surrendered. There is no division of the island, and neither assumes aDy indepen dent control. . The most important provision is theoreation of courts with British and French ( judges, eaoh administering their own legis- j lation in tbs case of their own subjects. A speoial tribunal presided over by a third t judge appointed by a friendly Power deals £ with land olaims. This definition of judicial right ends the deadlook in oonneotion with the punishment of offenders.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1689, 5 March 1906, Page 4
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